Gold Panda

Voices of Black (live), Telequanta

Gold Panda

Hailing from Chelmsford in Essex, but now located to Berlin, Germany, Gold Panda started writing beats and collaborating a few years ago, beginning a journey that ultimately saw him nominated in the BBC’s sound of 2010 list and won the Guardian newspaper’s prestigious First Album Award 2010 for his debut album Lucky Shiner.
Having spent downtime behind the counters of various establishments of ill-repute he consolidated the rest of his hours creating archives of electronic music. He poked his head into the world by way of a collection of instantaneously raved-about remixes, that quickly attracted the interest of various labels, blogs and taste makers, leading to requests for him to re-edit the likes of Telepathe, Bloc Party, Simian Mobile Disco, Health and The Field. In the meantime, Gold Panda began culling his back-archive of material for a series of low key releases: the first was ‘Miyamae’, a 12” on Various, followed by the ‘Quitters Raga’ 7” on Make Mine, and the third, ‘Before’ was released digitally and on 250 limited CDs via Puregroove, all in 2009. In October 2010 Gold Panda released his debut album Lucky Shiner. A culmination of years of work spent refining his sui generis sound, the record was released to huge critical acclaim, culminating in the Guardian First Album award the following year.

Since then he has been touring throughout the world, as well as releasing a DJ Kicks compilation in November 2011, and a handful of additional singles, including last summer’s ltd run Mountain / Financial District 7”.

Gold Panda begins 2013 with the release of the Trust EP – the first full EP he’s released since his pre-Lucky Shiner days. That release will be followed later in the year by his second album.

For 2013, dates have already been announced in New Zealand and Australia, Singapore, USA, Canada, Mexico, the UK and central Europe. He will be performing at Barcelona’s legendary forward-thinking music festival Sonar, for the first time this summer, having already appeared at the likes of Primavera, Glastonbury, Melt Festival, Roskilde, Hove, Latitude and Sasquatch festivals across the world in the last couple of summers.

Voices of Black (live)

VOICES OF BLACK CONSISTS OF MEMBERS JULES BORN AND BABA ALI. BOTH JUST 23 YEARS OLD THE YARCHERS THEMSELVES INVITE LISTENERS ON A COSMIC JOURNEY THAT BENDS CONVENTIONAL STANDARDS OF SOUND. NOTORIOUS FOR SIMPLE VOCALS LAYERED OVER INTROSPECTIVE LYRICS ,LAYERED OVER INFECTIOUS MELODIES, LAYERED OVER STRONG RHYTHMS GIVES AUDIENCES A COMPLEX STYLE THAT IS ORIGINAL AND REFRESHING. WHILE VOB'S SOUND IS UNDOUBTEDLY NEW WAVE ELECTRO THERE ARE TRACES OF CLASSIC FUNK AND SOULFUL MELODIES–THE GROUP IS ALSO NOT AFRAID TO EXPERIMENT WITH VOCAL PATTERNS AND STYLES THAT HAVE ALMOST A SPOKEN WORD FEEL.

Telequanta

Telequanta is the stage name of J.Termini, an electronic musician,
graphic designer and member of the Philadelphia-based Data Garden
artist collective. Musically, Telequanta is known for
multi-dimensional psychedelic synth-wave productions.

J began by releasing solo works under his own name until the moniker
Telequanta was developed by visual artist and collaborator, Patrick
Schlitzer. Since then, the duo has been performing live to showcase
their original audio/visual compositions.